An insight into vehicle testing

Mira Goes Live

Mira Proving Ground have recently introduced a resource which has the potential to be of great assistance to VBOX customers.

I was over there recently to test whether the signal they output from a permanently installed base station is compatible with our kit. Indeed it is – and they now transmit an RTK correction signal to just about every part of the facility. This is a seriously useful feature they’re offering: it means that if you’ve got a VBOX3i RTK and our latest radio modems, you can just rock up and start testing with 2cm positional accuracy.

If you’re carrying out tests that require a high level of positional accuracy – so ADAS validation or development, for instance – you’ll be able to get on with it pretty much immediately without having to first set up a base station.

One of the happy by-products to this is consistency in brake testing. Although positional accuracy to 2cm isn’t necessary to measure stopping distance, it does allow for comparison of results taken from differing areas of the track, which wears in the same way that any road surface does and can lead to sometimes puzzling results. The enhancement of knowing precisely at which point of the road surface the tests are carried out can iron out these anomalous results.